Here's the message we sent to our members. After you've read it, please add your voice.

Dear Friend,

Despite a horrible reputation of compromising its users' personal information, Facebook plans to require U.S. Citizenship — a U.S. government-issued ID and social security number — to purchase political ads.1

Its new ad policies would force users to give up even more sensitive, personal information and would block incredible political activists like DREAMers, who have spent most of their lives in the U.S., from fully engaging in the democratic process via Facebook's platform.

Facebook broadly identifies a "political ad" as advocating for "national issues of public importance" such as immigration.2Not only would Facebook's new ad policies exclude 11 million U.S. residents, including DREAMers, from fully participating in our democracy, but this company is NOT to be trusted with users' personal data. Right now, the defunct political data firm Cambridge Analytica is under federal investigation for, among other breaches, harvesting the private information of more than 50 million Facebook users to help sway the 2016 election.3

Facebook has also recently admitted that a shady Russian company based in the Kremlin purchased more than $100,000 worth of political ads — about 3,000 ads! — to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.4 Based on the company's inability to protect users' data, there's a good chance that Facebook's new political ad policies won't keep Russian hackers at bay.

Give Facebook our passport and social security number?!?! Facebook should NOT be trusted with MORE private information. According to its new policies, to purchase a political ad "you'll also need to upload a photo of your picture ID (either a U.S. passport or U.S. driver's license), and enter the last 4 digits of your Social Security number."5

Not only is Facebook undermining our democracy by excluding those without social security numbers from fully raising their political voices, but they can't even be trusted with the information they already have. Let's not give Russian hackers or anyone else more private information, okay?

Industry trade groups have consistently listed Facebook as the largest and most important social media platform for marketers.6 It is crucial that DREAMers and other Latinx organizers continue to have full access to Facebook's capabilities to get their messaging out to the public. At the same time, no organizers should have their identities compromised, further undermining our democracy.